Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Craziness at Tuesday morning practice

The morning walk through brought some laughter from the crowd. There was a group of players maybe 6-7 and a player inside the group on the field. I could not see who it was. Singing broke out with the most aweful rendition of Happy Birthday. Larry Dean was the man in the middle and found out it was his birthday. Jamarca Sanford yelled out to the fans “It is Larry Deans birthday today.”

After the morning practice Cory Cove from KFAN radio station was walking around and finding fans to participate in different challenges. If the task was completed, season tickets would then be handed out to the winners.

The first challenge I watched as Viktor,the Vikings mascot held in his hand a hot dog in a bun and that was in a paper tray. Two men bent over to reach the hot dog. They had to start on each end of the hot dog in the bun and eat it all including the bun. The kicker was they could not use their hands just their mouths and nothing could fall to the ground. A small crowd gathered around to watch these 2 adult men trying to finish this feat. The camera men were taping it and I had my camera. What a sight. They accomplished it and were indeed handed the 10 game season ticket to each of the winners. The one man showed me the tickets, which are in section 238. He told me free season tickets just to eat a hot dog, this is a no brainer.

The second feat was down right gross. There was a large plastic container that was deep put on a table. The container was filled with 3 gallon jugs of hot dog juice along with hot dogs getting poured in. Two girls with long hair that I guess were young teen agers. They had to dunk their head in the bucket and soak their hair in the bucket. They each did it. Each girl lifted their head out of the bucket and whipped their head back sending hot dog juice everywhere. The girls were each given the 10 game season tickets. I asked one of the girls moms where the tickets were in the dome. She said who cares, free season tickets. The tickets were also in 238. It was 2 very excited girls jumping around with hot dog smelling hair stating “We got season tickets.”

The hot dog event will be shown on the big screen at Mall of America Field at some point during the season.

How far would you go for season tickets?
What a morning
Thanks for reading
Purplestick

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